MUMBAI - Tupperware Brands Corporation has elevated its India Managing Director, Asha Gupta, as group president of the Asia-Pacific region to oversee the American multinational’s operations in 15 countries including India, China, Japan and Australia. “Asha will be responsible for driving growth and expansion of the entire Asia-Pacific region” a Tupperware spokeswoman told the Economic Times. She will move to Singapore to take up her new responsibility with effect from Jan. 1.

Puneet Narula, Deputy Managing Director and CFO at Tupperware India, will succeed her as India Managing Director of the Florida-based food storage container and beauty products firm. Gupta, the first woman and first Indian to lead Tupperware in Asia-Pacific, joins a growing league of India-born executives holding plum global roles in multinationals. Gupta joined Tupperware in 1997 to head sales in south India